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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, JULY 19, E. M. 300 (1900.) For the Torch of Reason. ' most every issue of the Blade lately,' “Ouilded” Points. and which are educative in the highest sense, should be going to Fac-simiie °f the Cloth Edition# of Facsimile of the Illuminated Paper the people. Famous 9 Covers of the * BY JOHN P. GUILD. We will be as economical as pos- LIBRARY OF t ir p a r v of r*r> L t I l M a J a J x I Let the Liberal University unite j sible, but there must be no cheap _ or half-way proceeding in the man- LIBERAL CLASSICS. LIBERAL CLASSICS. the world in Liberty. agement of this trial. So far the A conscience which pays more committee has been at no expense, regard to abstract principles than it save from postage and a rubber does to practical rights, is a dan stamp, amounting to less than $2. gerous article. A number have written that they A person who will not learn a will contribute later, as it is not Science because it may hot be used, convenient at present. All such will please write to me, should never take an umbrella stating how much they will con along, for it may not rain. tribute and when. We will then No matter what you think you be better able to estimate what ex may never do, it is no harm to have penditure may be made. Send • the tools to do it with; they will be money direct to treasurer. P A P E R E D IT IO N S . C L O T H E D IT IO N S . very handy if you should ever need Let every one feel that this fight c Paine’s Age o f Reason......................................... IB S CO M PLETE W O R K ». Paine’s Common Sense....................................... « IB them. Paine a Political \ \ orks. 2 vol is his own. To deprive Mr. Moore Paine’s Theological Works 1 vol P if M f t Paine's Rights o f M an......................................... 0 Illu t »rated Paine’s Crisis.......................................................... 0 Paine’s M iscellaneous Works. 1 vol Edition, Paine’s Religious A Theological Works. Ills 00 A Freethinker does not mean and Mr. Hughes of their liberty is Paine’s Life. By Clio Rickman tìQXtd Paine’s Principal Political Works, Illus..... 60 and the editor o f 77ie Nation to narrow your own, and to render 5 vol. «5.00 Paine’s Life. Proftisely illustrated................. 3D one who is free from error, but one al. Profusely illustrated. 1 vol, Volney’s Ruins o f Empires. Illustrated.... 00 Paine’s Age or Reason so Paine’s Rights o f Man...................................... an Rousseau’s Vicar o f Savoy, and A Search for 9 who is free to rectify his error in insecure all other Liberal propa- Paine’s Truth, by Olive Schreiner.................... 0 Crisis.................................................... Rousseau’s Social Contract......................... 60 opinion, not obliged to renounce gandism. We can’t afford it. Each Paine’s Life, by ed National. Profusely Ulus. Meslier’s Superstition in all Ages. Portrait 00 Complete Life, by Clio Rickman and age should lay firm the founda Paine’s I’lrB lier’O (ftlmtbe nub 'U rrnunft. Portrait 00 his reason. the editor o f the N ational.............................. l Dickens' Sunday Under Three Heads. Illus. Paine’s Principal Political Works, (1 vol.)... 1 tions of a higher liberty for the age Paine’s Political Works, Complete, (2 vols.).. 3 00 Bulwer’s History o f a False Religion. Ulus. IB IB Talleyrand’s Letter to the Pope. Portrait... 0 The best learned lessons are that follows. It is this that gives! Paine’s Religious and Theological Works. 1 00 Gibbon’s Birth and Character o f Mahomet... IB Gibbon’s History o f Christianity. Ulus....... 3 00 iggins’ Horse Sabbaticse ............................... * those which are committed to the greatest glory to any age. Free Gibbon’s Birth and Character o f .Mahomet 60 H Higgins’ Apology for Mahomet, the Ulus. IB Reasons for Unbelief. By Louis V iardot...... IB memory by making big mistakes. thinkers have always led in this Father Tom and the Pope at the V atican........ IB The greatest successes are often respect. Let us be alive to this made by taking advantage of fail high principle of freedom, Send in ures. Dig a story or a song out of your contribution at ouce. If it is your misery and coin it into ducats. only a small amount now, let us One reason why so many per know if you will add to it later. sons who were apparently so stupid J. B. W ilson , M. D., at school became remarkably suc Secretary Defense Committee. Voltaire's Romances. Illu strated .................. 1 50 cessful in business, is because they ------- Essays and Criticisms. Profusely illus. 1 50 Voltaire’s Zadig, or Fate : and The W hite 206 E. Fourth St., Cincinnati, O. Rousseau’s Vicar o f Savoy. Portrait. Cloth 50 Bull, a Satirical R om ance............... 0 could not or would not accept the Rousseau’s Social Contract. Portrait............ 76 ------- The Sage and the A theist; also The M eslier’s Superstition in all Ages. Portrait. 1 00 Princess o f Babylon.............................. 0 falsehoods attempted to be taught aitrBlirr'B (ftlnube lint* ¡Ueniuiift. Portrait 1 00 -------Tbe Man o f Forty Crowns; and The Volney’s Ruins o f Empires. Illustrated..... 76 His Dream. Huron, or, Pupil o f Nature............ IB them, and so their minds were free V olney’s New Researches in Ancient History 1 50 — r— Micromegas; The World as It Goee ; Reade’s (Winwood) Martyrdom o f Man........ 1 00 * Plato’s Dream ; J cannot A Colin, etc. 0 to grasp the facts which came with Haeckel’s Visit to Ceylon. Portrait............... 1 00 Voltaire’s Romances, containing the above« Dickens’ Sunday Under Three Heads. Illus. 50 books in one vol. Profusely illustrated.«1 00 Minister (at the Breakfast table): H iggins’ Horse Sabbaticae....................... .......... 50 --------Letters in reach later. on the Christian R eligion....... 0 iggins’ Apology for Mahomet, the Illus. 50 ------- Philosophy o f H istory............................... K “Willie, my boy, why are you look H Buchner’s Force and Matter. Portrait .... 1 00 Philosopher. Philosopher.................................... 13 A sheepskin will not make any ing so thoughtful? Are you - not Buchner’s Man in fa st, Present and Future. 1 00 ------Ignorant inese Catechism. Chir Rochefoucauld’s Moral M axims...................... 75 Voltaire’s Essays and Criticisms contains the one a shepherd or a doctor. A feeling well?” Comte’s Positive Philosophy. Portrait........ 4 00 above 4 books, profusely illustrated........ 1 00 Goodloe’s Birth o f the Republic. P ortrait.. 1 Ml Renan’s Life o f Jesus. Illustrated................. 60 shepherd’s best recommend is his Saltus’ Anatomy o f N egation................ «....... 76 Schopenhauer’s Wisdom o f Life. Portrait... 0 Willie (very seriously): “ Yes, Saltus’ Philosophy o f Disenchantm ent......... 75 ------Counsels and M axims.............................. fat flock of tine-wooled sheep, and papa, but I had a strange dream Faw cett’s A gnosticism ........................................ 78 --------Religion : a Dialogue & Other Essays.. 0 33 Bulwer’s History o f a False R e lig io n ............ 50 ------- The Art o f Literature........................«....... 0 Talleyrand’s Letter to the Pope. Portrait... 50 a physician’s proudest diploma is this morning.” Studies in Pessim ism . Reasons for Unbelief. By Louis Viardot...... 5C Gabrielle’s Life snd Imm ortality o f M an..... 60 Father Tom and the Pope at the Vatican...... 50 Davidson’s Canon o f the Bible......................... his hosts of healed patients. It is 60 Minister: “Indeedl What was it?” Ingersoll’s Lectures, vol. I, cloth................... 3 50 Darwin’s Origin o f Species................................ 60 ---------------- “ vol. I, fhll sheep.......... 6 00 Hypatia By Charles K ingsley......................... a blamed bad physician who wants 60 Willie: “I dreamed, papa, that I ---------------- “ vol. I, Ijalf morocco... 5 00 Bacon’s Paradoxes. P o r tra it.......................... 10 (Second volume in preparation.) a law to protect him from the com died and went to heaven, and when The Scientific Religion By Maniel Hands.„ 60 Ingersoll’s Prose Poems. Portrait. ......... 3 50 Ingersoll's Controversy A Christmas Hermon 0 petition of other practitioners. “ “ Cheaper Edition.. J 50 ----------- Gods and other lec tu r es.................. 80 St. Peter met me at the gate, in ---------------- ----------------Gods and other Lectures............. 1 00 ----------- Ghosts and other Lectures................ 60 and other Lectures.......... 1 00 Some Mistakes o f Moses................ stead of showing me the way to the ----------------Ghosts --------------- Som e Mistakes o f looses................ 1 00 00 Interviews on Talm mage, ----------------Interviews on Talm age........... «... 1 00 0 What Must we do to be Saved ?„.... lore Money Wanted for the De golden streets, as I expected, he ----------------Field-Ingersoll Discussion........... 50 Blasphemy .......................................... 0 Controversy 50 -----Man, Woman and Child. Portrait. 0 fense of the Blue Grass Blade’s took me out into a large field, and ----------------Ingersoll-Gladstone The Christian R eligion................ 6C ------Shakespeare, a Lecture. Portrait. 0 ----------------Patriotic Addresses ......................... 50 ------ About the Holy Bible, a Lecture... 0 Editor and Publisher. in the middle of the field there was ----------------Shakespeare, a Lecture. Portrait. 60 ------ Voltaire, a Lecture. P ortrait........ » Renan’s Life ot otsus. ............... Cloth TB Ingi a ladder reaching away up into the Davidson’s Canon of the B ib le ........................ 1 00 Ingersoll-G ladstone Controversy.. 0 Apocrypha! ’ Testam ent......... .................... 1 60 E ditor T orch of R ea so n : ■The Christian R e lig io n ................. 0 sky and out of sight. Then St. M orehouse’s V il.Ierness o f Worlds. Illus ... 1 00 Foundations o f Fait Jth 0 Taber’s Fuith or Fact .................................... 1 00 H o w to Reform Mankind. 0 Mr. Parrott, treasurer of the de Peter told me that heaven was at K eeler’s Short History of tbe Bible................ 76 Essays and Criticism s..................... 0 French Revolution....... .....................* 75 ■ The Truth, a Lecture...................... • 30 fense committee, which is to have the top, and that in order to get Carlyle’s Spencer’s First Principles..... ............................. 75 ■Crimes Against tgaln st Crim Criminals. inals............... 10 Spencer’s Data of Etlncs.................................... 76 Abraham L incoln, a Lecture. Por. 0 charge of the trial of Editor Moore there I must take the big piece of I •• Education............................................. 75 -------------Which Way? A Lecture................... 0 Descent of Man .................................. 75 and Miracles. A Lecture... 0 and Publisher Hughes next Oc chalk he gave me and slowly climb Darwin’s Darwin’s Origin o f Species............................... 75 -------------Myths Patriotic Addresses....................... «... 0 Other Worlos than o u r s .................. 75 ------------ ------------ Some Reasons W hy............................ 0 tober, has just made a report of the the ladder, writing on each rung K Proctor’s ingsley’s H ypatia.............................................. 75 ------------- W hy I am an A gnostic...................... 0 Schopenhauer's Essays....................................... 75 ------------- Rome or Reason ? ...............«.............. 0 correspondence and money on hand. some sin I had committed.” O'Meara’s Napoleon, 2 vol., Boxed. Illus. 2 50 -------------Superstition. A L ectu re................. 0 Las Casas Napoleon, 4 vols., Boxed Illus. . 6 00 -------------On the Devil. “ 0 There has been received about Minister (laying down his news-, Cobbett's English Grammar ........................... 1 00 ------------- Thanksgiving Serm on...................... 0 .Macauley’s Lays o f Ancien’ Rome. Illus.... 3 50 ------------- As He Is................................................. 0 one-fourth of the amount that will paper): “And did you finally reach Shakespeare Portrayer! by Himself........ „...... 1 00 -------------Vindication o f Thomas Paine......... 13 ------------ Is Suicide a Sin ?......... 0 O ld S p a n i s h r o m a n c e s . be needed. No doubt, a good many heaven, my son?” ------------To the Clergy.................................... 0 Don Quixote, 4 v o ls ........................ ------------- Individuality......................................... 0 Lazarillo de Tonnes, 2 vols........... think there is plenty of time yet Willie: “No, papa; for just as I Asmodeus, 1 vol................................. 43 Etchings, -------------Liberty in Literature.......................... 0 hve, ------------ Orthodoxy.............................................. 10 and are waiting until a more con was trying to think of something to Bachelor o f Salamanca, 1 vol......... crown cloth. ------------- Lim itations o f T oleration .................. 10 Vanillo Gonzales, or the Merry Discourse About Im m o rta lity ............. 90 venient season to contribute. But write on the second rung I looked , Bachelor, 1 vol........................... Boxed «16.00 oanos’ ------ “ “ Religion ................ 0 Adventures o f Gil Bias, 3 vols....... ------- “ “ God ............................. 50 this delays the committee from en up into the sky and saw you coming The Same 12 vols.. H alf Calf, Boxed . .. ...... 0 00 ------- “ “ C o n d u c t.................... 0 Don Quixote, 4 vols., with Etchings, Boxed 5 00 “ “ The Law o f Succeee tering into any practical plans of down.” Adventures o f Gil Bias, 3 vols., “ “ .. 4 5« ------- and Failure o f Things 90 P O P U L A R C L O T H E D IT IO N S . Opposites in General defense. We want to distribute a Minister: “And what was I com Adventures o f Gil Bias, 3 vols. Illustrated. 0 « Keeler’s Sh .rt History or of'the tne B Bible .............. 30 “ “ popular edition 1 00 Gardener’s Men, W omen and Gods................ M great number of Blades in Louis ing down for, pray?” Asmodeus, or the Devil on Two Sticks. Illus. 1 00 Asmodeus, or the Devil on Two Sticks. Dins. 5n Bachelor o f Salamanca. Ulu-trsted............. 1 00 Bachelor or Salamanca, lliustrsted ........... 90 ville and in the counties surround Willie: “That’s just what I asked Vanillo Gonzales, or Merry Bachelor. Illus 1 00 Vanillo Gonzales, or the Merry Bachelor. Ills 3D ing. The fine legal contributions you, papa, and you told me you Don Q uixote, 4 volum es in 1. Illustrated. ._ 1 00 FOR SALE BY FOR SALE BY of Mr. Chamberlain on the Com were going for more chalk.”—[Blue T H E T O R C H O F R E H S O N , T H E T O R C H OF R E Ä S 0 H , stock law, which have been in al- Grass Blade. * L i b r a r y o f L ib e r a l C la s s ic s . Silverton, Oregon. * Silverton, Oregon. 40* « ■ *